Driver drama

Just now was pretty awesome. At first, and at last.

Mud and I surprised the working Najib at Secret Receipe and we ended up caking (lol) there with discounts and two free hot chocolate! (how do you account for cocoa powder?! shhh)

He looked really surprised cos Mud was talking to him on the phone "eh, you working now ah? I come by later ah. yah, alone." and two seconds later we walked through the front door. :D

Dare I say the both of them are getting better looking! (:

Mud and I sat there talking, he filled me in with everything I've missed. Najib too, when he dropped by our table "showing us the menu" while Mud was on the phone with his dad who was overseas.

Najib took a fiver with us outside and we hung out for a bit. Then he had to head back and so Mud and I headed for Rahimah's for prata.

And that was when the Drama happened.

I decided to just drop in 55cents, even though I'm not supposed to, ya okay, got that. Before boarding I was all pissy about it, and Mud was like "aiyah 42 is a small time bus" so you can supposedly just show your pass and get away with it, which is kinda true cos the bus is smaller.

But fuck it man. I always get screwed over by these kinda things. Bus drivers and me do NOT click at all. Have had too many shit experiences.

I showed the driver my student pass as "evidence" he asked me whether there was any cash inside and I said no. Then he asked me to tap it and fucking shit just went through my head.

Busted.

So whatever. I just dropped in another 40 cents, I mean no biggie. I can pick up 40 cents from the roads within a day if I just looked, know what I mean.

AND THEN HE DID THE UNEXPECTED.

The friggin driver DEMANDED MY EZLINK CARD.

Of course I went wtf (in my head, pls too early to be that rude, even I know that). I ended up arguing with him for like about a whole long 5 minutes (the bus didnt move from that bus stop the whole time).

If I rmb correctly, parts of it went something like this.

I must take your ezlink card.
WHAT! WHY!?
Because your card
expired already.
Huh. What do you mean?!
It says here adult
fare *gestures to the reader thing
I KNOW THAT. I AM
PAYING ADULT FARE. WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO SAY.
I have to take
your card.
(blood boiling already)
NO YOU DONT! I've not done
anything wrong. I paid the adult fare. I NEED MY CARD.
You must give me
your card.
No I wont! WHY!?
Because expired.
YA. But I dont
see any of my friends not in JCs currently having to do that. Since when was
there this.. this SYSTEM.
Long time already.
HAH. Right. My
friends in JCs now dont have to change their ezlink cards yet. We're WAITING for the olevel results to come out, nothing's
confirmed, EVERYONE'S still using this card from SECONDARY SCHOOL. (I spoke kinda slowly, cos MAYBE he doesnt
understand what I'm saying)
Anyway, what's the logic? It's not like I'm not
schooling and still paying student fair, which is bad enough. I'm paying ADULT FARE. If I take the mrt-
(he INTERRUPTED me)
You cannot take the mrt
WHAT are you talking about!? I've taken
the mrt so many times but I PAY THE ADULT FARE. ADULT FARE. Not STUDENT fare.
You must give me
your card.
You dont understand. The adult fare thing is already activated AUTOMATICALLY. I have to PAY THE ADULT FARE NOW. I'm not
cheating anybody.
I know, you're not cheating.
So WHAT is the problem!?
I must take your card.
Whatever.

(and gave it to him with like super annoyed looks and he gave me this receipt thing and some fucked ticket and shit and asked me to call this number with this ezlink card number. Besides, the people a board were starting to throw ME dirty looks like wth)

Oh I wasnt done with him. I mean seriously. I'd have to get a new card and come out more money. Total BS man.

So I sat down for the journey extremely pissed and sprouting vulgarities like water to Mud till we reached Kembangan. Saved the bus plate number and the time in my phone. He is NOT going to get away with this.

When we were at the MRT (pit stop), I went up to him again, this time with Mud and asked for an explanation. See, I did my homework and read everything he gave me and I found a hole. WHO'S BUSTED NOW HUH.

Look, it says here that you can only take my card if it's been *reads off
paper*. I've not done any of those. I want my card back.
Cannot.
How many cards have you confiscated?
Is this your first card?!
It is right!
Do you KNOW
what you're doing? Are you even SURE what you're supposed to do?
Yes, I know! I know! You see *taps my
card*.
What? See what!? It says PAY CASH. If I had money inside I COULD ACTUALLY USE IT YKNOW. (sarcasm)

And something something something. We went at it like that for like another 10 minutes or something and then Mud came up with an idea. A brilliant one. He suggested we go to the mrt station and see whether I can top up my card or not.

Which is so DUH I can top up my card, I just have to pay ten bucks, kept telling the dufus that but he still insisted I give him my card in that annoying voice and LOUSY eye contact. The Loser.

And omg. The front door was open, so obviously the people at the bus stop could hear everything and when I got off, there was this Mother with her daughter judging by the face about 15, judging by the clothes about 12, take your pick. And that woman was giving me the nastiest looks. Which of course I returned, it's only polite.

COW.

So we got to the mrt station and I topped up my card. ("SEE. It says here minimum top up is $10.00. LIKE THE ADULT CARD.")

It obviously accepted the money and didnt reject my card. Typically, I gave him a smug look. And the sarcasm went off; second nature remember.

"Do you want my receipt? As evidence? You can have it you know." *presses receipt button* Here.

"Oh no need. No need."

Man the loser. Point made and he gave me back my card and asked for the receipt and whatever paper back. And he just went off like that!

I was EXTREMELY appalled.

"Excuse me, arent you even going to say 'I'm sorry'!?"

Which of course he did. Can you believe it?! He wouldnt have apologised if I hadnt demanded it, which totally beats the purpose of an apology in the first place but whatever.

My blood positively boiled to an impossible degree the whole time. The jerk.

Naturally, I was still hung up about the whole situation, so poor Mud. Haha. But Mud being Mud, said something to make me laugh and soon enough, all's well. (:

Had our pratas, talked&laughed a whole lot. It was all good.

AND THEN THE FUCKTARD HAD TO POP UP AGAIN OUT OF NOWHERE.

Like wtf, seriously. Get. out. of. my. face.

He went "You know, I made a call and I'm supposed to confiscate your card actually"

I just rolled my eyes, whatever-ed him and continued with my prata.

Ok, I may have come off as really rude and stuff. But sorry ah, I was sooooo unbelievably pissed. Like Niki Sanders, or rather Jessica, and everyone else for that matter, when we're angry our words are anything BUT sugar-coated and our manners are anything BUT polite. Deal.

And that my friends, was yet another one of my episodes with disgusting bus drivers.

Mud claims that he's actually a nice guy. Well, he definitely wasnt to me!

Cannot let the incident overpower my good quality time with Mud! (: It was nice lah. Catching up and all. Got to know a lot of things last night actually.

Talking about Friday was just inevitable. ):

Ok, I need a good dose of Youtube now. Please please please already upload episode 14....

Be good now.